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<DIV><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I><SPAN
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Tatar Repatriates</SPAN></I></B></DIV>
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<P
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class=MsoNormal>You are invited to join us in welcoming <SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN>Mustafa
Dzhemilev, Member of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament), the
recognized </SPAN>leader of the Crimean Tatar National Movement, a human
rights activist, former Soviet dissident, and the former Chairman of the
Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People at the opening of the exhibit <EM><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria">No Other Home: The Crimean Tatar
Repatriates</SPAN></EM> at The Ukrainian Museum in New York. </P>
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<P
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class=MsoNormal><STRONG>When: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1"></SPAN>10:30 am,
Sunday, March 30, 2014<IMG style="WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 464px" border=1
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<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -49.5pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt 49.5pt"
class=MsoNormal><STRONG>Where:<SPAN
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Museum<BR></STRONG>222 E 6th St, New York, NY 10003<BR>Tel. (212) 228-0110</P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -49.5pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt 49.5pt"
class=MsoNormal>Who:<SPAN
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</SPAN>Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar communities in New York Metro area</P>
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class=MsoNormal>What:<SPAN
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</SPAN><EM><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria">No Other Home: The Crimean Tatar
Repatriates</SPAN></EM> – an exhibition of photographs by Alison Cartwright
and sound installation by Maria Sonevytsky of stories and songs of the
Crimean Tatars' decades-long struggle to return to their motherland</P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: -49.5pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt 49.5pt"
class=MsoNormal>Why:<SPAN
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</SPAN>To welcome Mustafa Dzhemilev and to show Ukrainian American solidarity
with the Crimean Tatar people.</P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Mustafa Dzhemilev -
Biography</B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal>Dzhemilev was born in Ay-Serez, Crimea, then Russian SFSR, on
November 13, 1943. He was only six months old when his family, with the rest of
the Crimean Tatar population, was deported by Soviet authorities in May 1944. He
grew up in exile, in Uzbekistan. At the age of 18, Dzhemilev and several of his
activist friends established the Union of Young Crimean Tatars. He thus began
the arduous and long struggle for the recognition of the rights of Crimean
Tatars to return to their homeland. Between 1966 and 1986, Dzhemilev was
arrested six times for anti-Soviet activities and served time in Soviet prisons
and labor camps, or lived under surveillance. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto" class=MsoNormal>In May
1989, he was elected to head the newly founded Crimean Tatar National Movement.
The same year he returned to Crimea with his family, a move that would be
followed by the eventual return of 250,000 Tatars to their homeland.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto" class=MsoNormal>In
October 1998, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees awarded
Dzhemilev the Nansen Medal for his outstanding efforts and “his commitment to
the right of return of the Crimean Tatars.” In an interview Dzhemilev gave
shortly after receiving the Nansen Medal, he emphasized that “when violent means
are used, innocent people die, and no just cause can justify the taking of
innocent lives.” The Crimean Tatar National Movement has been marked by
persistent reliance on non-violence.</P>
<P
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class=MsoNormal>Dzhemilev has declared that the Mejlis considers the recent
referendum in Crimea illegal and that the results were manipulated by Russia. On
the basis of this referendum Russia has illegally annex Crimea</P>
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class=MsoNormal><STRONG>About the exhibition <SPAN
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Other Home: The Crimean Tatar Repatriates</EM></SPAN><SPAN
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by Alison Cartwright<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN><BR
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installation by Maria Sonevytsky</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=justify><EM>No Other Home: The Crimean Tatar Repatriates</EM><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>was premiered at The Ukrainian Museum
in New York in 2010. In 2011, it was shown at the Ivan Honchar Museum in Kyiv,
Ukraine. The<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
href="http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_100516crimeantatar.html"
target=_blank>original NOH exhibit</A> featured photographs paired with
audio files retrofitted to play through Soviet-era stationary telephones.
Following the exhibition in Kyiv, the photographs and telephones was transferred
to the Ethnographic Museum in Simferopol, where they remain today under
uncertain circumstances.</P>
<P
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align=justify>In a shocking series of events that has shaken the Autonomous
Republic of Crimea, Ukraine and the world, February 26, 2014 saw the beginning
of an invasion of the Crimean peninsula and takeover of the Crimean parliament
by Russian forces. On March 22, Crimea was illegally annexed by the Russian
Federation. The Crimean Tatars, Ukraine and its allies do not recognize the
annexation.</P>
<P
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT: 12px/16px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"
align=justify>This iteration of<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><EM>No Other Home</EM><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>is being shown in solidarity with the
Crimean Tatars of Crimea.</P>
<P
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT: 12px/16px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"
align=justify>In May of 2008, Maria Sonevytsky and Alison Cartwright traveled
throughout Crimea (Krym) – the scenic peninsula jutting out from southern
Ukraine into the Black Sea – gathering stories and songs that told of the
Crimean Tatars' decades-long struggle to return to their motherland. Forcibly
relocated by Stalin in 1944, the Tatars began to return to Crimea only in the
last twenty years. The stories of the twenty-six families interviewed for this
exhibit reveal how the memory of exile and uncertain prospects for the future
manifest in their daily lives determine what "home" is for these people who have
for so long lived without it.</P>
<P
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT: 12px/16px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"
align=justify>Discussions over endless rounds of strong Turkish coffee in
villages and cities throughout Crimea, now an autonomous republic under
Ukrainian jurisdiction, inevitably led to this lament, which was repeated in a
multitude of variations: "We are Crimean Tatars; we have nowhere else to go." It
became almost an improvised incantation, a worn cultural narrative demonstrating
the potency of an inherited place in the world. One can hear the same refrain in
the idyllic village hills of Ay Sere…"We are Crimean Tatars; we have nowhere
else to go." In a crumbling Soviet high-rise in the western resort city of
Yevpatoria: "We didn't have any choice; this was the only place for us, and we
always knew we would be here."</P>
<P
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT: 12px/16px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"
align=justify>Their banishment attests to the destructive strength of Stalin's
Red Army. Accused of conspiring with the Nazis and betraying the Soviet Union,
the entire population of Crimean Tatars, approximately 200,000 people at the
time, was forced onto cattle cars and carted thousands of miles to be resettled
among other Turkic-language Muslim groups. Some 25 to 47 percent of the
deportees died en route. Survivors were placed in "Special Settlement Camps"
where they were held for more than a decade.</P>
<P
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT: 12px/16px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"
align=justify>After the deportation, Tatar homes were given to ethnic Russian
and Ukrainian Soviet citizens, and the peninsula was secured along with its
strategic Black Sea port. In a fiendishly simple semantic maneuver that bears
strong repercussions to this day, the modifier "Crimean" was dropped from the
Tatars' passports, making them indistinguishable from a multitude of other
Turkic Muslims throughout the Soviet Union.</P>
<P
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT: 12px/16px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"
align=justify>In 1954, on the 300th anniversary of a short-lived treaty between
the Russian tsar and the Ukrainian Cossacks and 10 years after the forced
deportation of the Tatars, Nikita Khrushchev, then the head of the Soviet Union,
offered Crimea to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic as a token of
friendship. Word soon spread of an aggressive Soviet action to repopulate Crimea
with Slavs, for whom the temptation to relocate was understandable; in this
mythologized Eden of the Empire, settlers were guaranteed homes, sometimes with
beds already made and the previous summer's apricot preserves and canned
tomatoes waiting in the pantry.</P>
<P
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT: 12px/16px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"
align=justify>After being released from the settlement camps in the 1960s,
Crimean Tatars immediately began agitating for an end to their exile. Following
Stalin's death and Khrushchev's anemic apology for the atrocities carried out
during his rule, Crimean Tatars were given the liberty to move freely around
Central Asia and the Urals, but they were still forbidden to return to Crimea.
Finally, in 1987, with the entire Soviet Union approaching collapse, Gorbachev
granted Crimean Tatars the right to repatriation. Entire families, many of which
had only ever heard stories of Crimea, immediately began making travel
arrangements and gathering their belongings for the return to their ancestral
homeland.</P>
<P
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT: 12px/16px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"
align=justify>Today, there are an estimated 300,000 Tatars in Crimea – less than
15 percent of the total Crimean population. In exile, keys to homes abandoned in
1944 became cherished symbols of the Tatars' determination to return to Crimea.
Those who returned tell stories of arriving in Crimea after half century,
holding the same, rusted skeleton keys they had used to lock their doors for the
last time. The keys still fit the locks, but their owners had no right to open
those doors.</P>
<P
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT: 12px/16px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"
align=justify>In the former squatters' settlements of the 1990s, diminutive
ten-by-ten-foot brick structures stand littered between the towering facades of
unfinished buildings, some of which mask meticulously constructed interiors –
would-be dream homes awaiting the cash needed for completion.<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><EM>Kerpichi</EM>, the pale yellow
Crimean bricks resembling desiccated coral, are piled up in many lots – the
stuff of next summer's bedroom, chimney, or bathroom. Down the road is a
three-story palace that was completed a decade ago, but still lacks running
water and gas.</P>
<P
style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); MARGIN-TOP: 0px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; FONT: 12px/16px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; WHITE-SPACE: normal; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"
align=justify>Such jarring contradictions between the exteriors and interiors
are one legacy of a repatriation that has stretched over two decades, a period
punctuated by the economic instability and heightened political corruption that
followed Ukraine's declaration of independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Many of those who returned are the children or grandchildren of the Tatars
deported in 1944, and their memory of Crimea has been transmitted and reproduced
through generations of storytelling and singing. Yet the conviction that this is
their home is unwavering.</P>
<P
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align=justify>In his book<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><EM>The
Meaning of Home</EM><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>author John
Berger cautions that "approach[ing] experience…is not like approaching a house."
But in the case of the Crimean Tatars, the house is the most instructive,
heuristic symbol of their collective experience. The houses built, bought, and
dreamed of by the Crimean Tatars contain the stories of ancestors, the
aspirations and disappointments of returnees, and the obligations imposed by
history. The stories and songs that follow lend insight into the experience of
home by a people whose ethos centered on the quest to recreate it. For a people
deprived of a voice for over half a century, stories told to friends and family
were the only way to challenge a history that denied their basic identity, to
remember events that were erased from public memory. "If every event which
occurred could be given a name," Berger writes, "there would be no need for
stories. As things are here, life outstrips our vocabulary. A word is missing,
and so the story has to be told."</P>
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align=justify>The original (2010)<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><EM>No Other Home</EM><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>exhibition presented audio files via
Soviet-era stationary telephones that were retrofitted to play digital
recordings. Following the exhibition in Kyiv in 2011, the original photographs
and telephones were transferred to the Ethnographic Museum in Simferopol,
Crimea, where they remain today under uncertain circumstances.<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></P><SPAN
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